The Same But Different

by Danielle Kuznetsov, AWO Moscow and Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg

The current situation, COVID-19, has changed the world. For everyone. We are all experiencing it differently depending upon our location in the world, our lifestyle, who we live with, who we are and how we cope. It is the same but different. 

Each country adjusts daily to newly reported cases as...

Clubs in Motion – Annual Report 2019–2020

by Maggie Palu, AW Aquitaine

 

This is the annual report that would have been presented at the Interim Meeting(IM) in Luxembourg. Although for the moment we can’t get together to walk in groups, it’s important to recognize what was achieved in the past year.

Motion is healthy. One member wrote: “I just like to move, so I achieve this by...

The Happiness Lab

by Danielle Kuznetsov, AWO Moscow


Photo by Anni Smith 2 Sunflower with logo 22What if you could build a life that feels good most of the time – a life that serves you during the most challenging situations and prepares you for when things don't go as planned? COVID-19 has invited us all, globally, to this exact endeavor. We have been forced to stop, look and listen, not...

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Introducing FAWCO's Target Project

by Mary Dobrian, AIWC Cologne


Hope logoOn March 21, FAWCO’s Target Team announced our Target Project – Health for 2020-2022: 

S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for FGM Elimination), a project of HOPE for Girls and Women, Tanzania.

The project will 

  • support Safe Houses for girls fleeing forced female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Mara region of Tanzania;
  • provide healthcare and psychosocial counseling for...
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse – An Issue for Many Women

By June Bechara, AWC Lebanon

 

What is pelvic organ prolapse? 

The "pelvic floor" is a group of muscles that form a kind of hammock across your pelvic opening. Usually, these muscles and the tissues surrounding them keep the pelvic organs in place. These organs include your bladder, uterus, vagina, small bowel and rectum.

Sometimes these muscles and tissue develop problems.

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Saving Women’s Lives in Pregnancy and Childbirth – We Must Try Harder

By Mary Stewart Burgher, AWC Denmark

 

We all love to see happy mothers and their smiling babies, but pregnancy and childbirth are often difficult and dangerous. They have become much safer for women: for example, maternal deaths are now expressed as the number per 100,000 live births – in contrast to newborn deaths, which are expressed as the number...

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